"My mam and dad said 'Masters wants you to come' and I said 'This isn't a joke is it? It's not a prank?' but they promised it wasn't."

He was taken to meet the principal and other directors and he noticed dancers at the school, who overheard the news, giving him the thumbs-up.

"It took a long time to sink in," he said. "We all began to cry!"

Kyle has always loved to dance and started ballet classes at the age of eight as all his friends were playing football.

Kyle has now given up a performing arts course at Newcastle College and will move to London in September.

Billy Elliot, which has been a huge screen and stage hit, tells the story of an 11-year-old dealing with the negative stereotype of an aspiring male ballet dancer growing up in a tough North-east environment during the 1984 miner's strike.